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Have Space Suit - Will TravelNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1958
Space opera, about aliens and survival.
“One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his own backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the moon - and the next he was out cold and the captive of an insidious space pirate.”
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A Fall of MoondustNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1961
Hard science fiction, about survival.
“One of the high points of each tour is a cruise around the Sea of Thirst, a body of volcanic dust, in a specially designed vessel called the Selene On a perfectly routine voyage one day the Selene suddenly disappears.”
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Rocket Ship GalileoNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1947
Hopeful in tone, about coming of age.
“Three teenage boys do backyard experiments on powerful model rockets.”
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EarthlightNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1955
Science fiction, tense in tone, about space exploration, set in the moon.
The Rolling StonesNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1952
Lighthearted in tone, set in space.
“The Stone family, lunar-born, technically minded, and perpetually restless, buy a secondhand spaceship and set off from the Moon on a family tour of the solar system.”
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Islands in the SkyNovel
Arthur C. Clarkestandalone novel1952
About space colonization, set in space and space station.
“Clarke wrote the story as a travelogue of human settlement of cislunar space in the last half of the twenty-first century.”
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